{"id":536090,"date":"2022-11-14T10:56:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T05:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=536090"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T07:52:23","slug":"unmanned-solar-powered-us-plane-back-after-908-days-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/unmanned-solar-powered-us-plane-back-after-908-days-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmanned, solar-powered US plane back after 908 days in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unmanned US military space plane landed early Saturday after spending a record 908 days in orbit for its sixth mission and conducting science experiments. <\/p>\n<p>The solar-powered vehicle, which looks like a miniature space shuttle, landed at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center. Its previous mission lasted 780 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the X-37B&#8217;s first launch in 2010, it has shattered records and provided our nation with an unrivaled capability to rapidly test and integrate new space technologies,\u201d said Jim Chilton, a senior vice president for Boeing, its developer. <\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the space plane hosted a service module that carried experiments for the Naval Research Laboratory, US Air Force Academy and others. The module separated from the vehicle before de-orbiting to ensure a safe landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unmanned US military space plane landed early Saturday after spending a record 908 days in orbit for its sixth mission and conducting science experiments. The solar-powered vehicle, which looks like a miniature space shuttle, landed at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center. Its previous mission lasted 780 days. \u201cSince the X-37B&#8217;s first launch in 2010, it has shattered records and provided our nation with an unrivaled capability to rapidly test and integrate new space technologies,\u201d said Jim Chilton, a senior vice president for Boeing, its developer. For the first time, the space plane hosted a service module that carried experiments for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}